Theodore Dalrymple once recalled that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity . . . A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.1
